Introduction to Prayers
Prior to entering into prayer, put all distractions aside.
Take care of any pressing business. Write down any loose ends.
Now with nothing else to do start your steps towards God
Allow your senses to focus inward. Quiet the ego.
Center the emotions spiritually. It is time for the heart. Let the
mind concentrate on the meaning of the prayers.
Take life slowly, allow God direct you. Allow yourself to erase
all conflicts and align with spirit.
You are entering the presence of God, and entering with pure
respect and grace.
As you immerse yourself in the Lord is to turn fully, without
reserve, toward His presence. Feel the closeness.
The Short Prayer
Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and
simple way.
You give me pure love I can feel,
spiritual love that lifts me.
Beneath all things is Your love for me,
and my love for You.
You are my standard,
my reference,
my eternal love.
Help me remember You when life distracts me.
Lift me to the
highest consciousness.
In low times, let me see my life from across the river—
to
observe without being swallowed by melodrama.
Oh God, give me purpose.
Oh God, let me feel Your
presence.
If I am confused, I turn to You.
If I am hurt, I turn to You.
Help me remain optimistic,
to lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.
With every slow breath,
I am in Your presence—
alive, loved,
and guided.
The Longer Version
Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and
simple way.
You give me pure love I can feel,
spiritual love that lifts me.
Beneath all things is Your love for me,
and my love for You.
You are my standard,
my reference,
my eternal love.
Help me remember You when life distracts me.
If I wander, let
me hear Your voice and return.
Keep me from going astray.
Lift
me to the highest consciousness.
In low times, let me see my life from across the river—
to
observe without being swallowed by melodrama.
Oh God, speak with me so I may be guided.
Oh God, help me know
who I am.
Oh God, give me purpose.
Oh God, let me feel Your
presence.
If I am confused, I turn to You.
If I am hurt, I turn to You.
Help me remain optimistic,
to lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.
Each day, I will turn demands into preferences.
Each day, I
will be impeccable with my words.
Each day, I will do my best.
Each day, I will learn and grow.
I feel Your presence in my whole being.
Your joy flows through
me.
With every slow breath,
I am in Your presence—
alive, loved,
and guided.
The Now and Forever Prayer
Oh God, I give up.
Now and forever.
I love You in the most
respectful, pure, and simple way.
Now and forever.
You give me pure love I can
feel, spiritual love that lifts me.
Now and forever.
Beneath all things is Your love
for me, and my love for You.
Now and forever.
You are my standard, my
reference, my eternal love.
Now and forever.
Help me remember You when life
distracts me.
Now
and forever.
If I wander, let me hear Your
voice and return.
Now and forever.
Keep me from going astray.
Now and forever.
Lift me to the highest
consciousness.
Now and forever.
In low times, let me see my life
from across the river,
to observe without being swallowed by
melodrama.
Now
and forever.
Oh God, speak with me so I may
be guided.
Now
and forever.
Oh God, help me know who I am.
Now and forever.
Oh God, give me purpose.
Now and forever.
Oh God, let me feel Your
presence.
Now and
forever.
If I am confused, I turn to You.
Now and forever.
If I am hurt, I turn to You.
Now and forever.
Help me remain optimistic,
to
lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.
Now and forever.
Each day, I will turn demands
into preferences.
Now and forever.
Each day, I will be impeccable
with my words.
Now and forever.
Each day, I will do my best.
Now and forever.
Each day, I will learn and grow.
Now and forever.
I feel Your presence in my whole
being.
Now and
forever.
Your joy flows through me.
Now and forever.
With every slow breath, I am in
Your presence—
alive, loved, and guided.
Now and forever.
The Breath Prayer
Breath Prayer – Inhale /
Exhale Rhythm
Inhale:
Oh God, I give up.
Exhale:
I love You in the most pure and simple way.
Inhale:
Your love lifts me.
Exhale:
My love for You is my guide.
Inhale:
Help me remember You.
Exhale:
Keep me from going astray.
Inhale:
Raise me to highest consciousness.
Exhale:
In every confusion, I turn to You.
Inhale:
Each day, I will do my best.
Exhale:
Each day, I will walk in joy.
Inhale:
With every breath, I feel Your presence.
Exhale:
Alive, loved, and guided — now and forever.
The Full Prayer
Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and
simple way.
You give me pure love, simple love I can feel,
spiritual love that lifts me.
Beneath all things, everything rests
on Your love for me, and my love for You.
You are my standard, my
reference, my eternal love.
Help me remember this when life distracts me.
If I wander, let
me hear Your voice and return.
Keep me from going astray.
Lift
me to the highest consciousness.
In low times, let me see my life from across the river.
Help me
observe without being swallowed by melodrama.
The world has long been haunted by ancient fears of imagined
spirits.
But in You—pure, real, and present in my heart—I find
clarity.
Without You, I do not know which way to turn, what is
good, what is false.
Keep me close, dear God, and fill me with
joy.
Oh God, speak with me so I may be guided.
Now and forever, I am
guided.
Oh God, help me feel unity, to know who I am.
Now and
forever, I know who I am.
Oh God, give me purpose.
Now and
forever, I live with purpose.
Oh God, let me feel Your presence.
Now and forever, I feel Your
presence.
If confusion comes, I turn to You.
If someone hurts
me, I turn to You.
Oh God, help me remain optimistic.
Let me lose myself in good
work and purpose,
yet never lose sight of You.
The world is filled with needless negativity.
News traps us in
low consciousness.
But life is always a challenge,
and our task
is to raise it into higher consciousness.
When things turn
negative, let me act.
If I cannot solve the whole problem,
guide me to do what I can.
If we avoid solving problems, we sink into despair.
Solving
problems is normal and healing.
If lonely, help me reach out.
If restless, remind me to serve.
Yet the deeper solution is always spiritual work—
which makes
us joyous both psychologically and spiritually.
In the outer world, all life follows the perfect laws of nature.
We cannot change these laws.
Life has finite spans: the young
replace the old.
But if we care for ourselves, we live longer and
healthier.
Let me turn addictions into preferences.
If candy tempts me,
remind me that fruit is better.
Each day I will transform demands
into preferences, now and forever.
Each day I will be impeccable with my words, now and forever.
If words fail, I will choose new words that heal.
If I always do
my best, my life becomes the best.
Each day I will go deeper and learn new things.
I will remember
that the lower mind does not see the whole picture,
and its voice
can be misleading or even silly.
I will resist earthly pleasures, but not deny them.
For it is
healthy to honor the body wisely.
My mind is divided into many departments,
but above all I have
a true source—
that weighs the chatter of the mind
against the
wisdom of God.
Through meditation, I can turn the mind off.
This is a gift, useful even in sleep.
I am extraordinary in seeing through dogma, materialism, and media
illusions.
If something breaks, I can fix it.
I am educated,
I am able to see people in depth.
I understand metaphysics.
I am mindful always, now and forever.
I learn from the past and
prepare for the future,
but do not cling to those I miss,
nor
fear what is to come.
I am gentle with self-criticism.
I converse with You, God,
about self-improvement.
I must remember that loving You is the
greatest thing I do.
I can feel Your presence.
I can enter the state of grace.
I
feel Your love intensely.
When I glimpse Your eyes, I am
overwhelmed with joy.
That joy flows through my head, neck, chest,
stomach, thighs, legs, feet, toes, arms, hands, and fingers.
I take five slow breaths.
I relax into perfect joy.
I am in
Your presence.
I speak with You.
If it is late, I can turn off my thoughts.
If it is day, I know
my goals.
In both, I feel profoundly loved, alive, and purposeful.
When annoying thoughts arise,
I see them as blue mist.
They
spin, weaken, and fade away.
And I return to focus—
whether to
sleep, to work, or to worship You.
The Importance of the Prayers
The first prayer in the left column begins with a single phrase that is far more
radical than it sounds: “Oh God, I give up.” In ordinary life,
“giving up” is associated with failure. In inner life, it is often
the doorway to freedom.
This line is not resignation; it is abdication of the false
throne. It is the moment the personality stops trying to be the
manager of reality.
Something in us finally recognizes that the mind’s constant
grasping, interpreting, defending, and controlling cannot produce
peace. The prayer’s first movement is therefore not toward belief,
but toward release. It dissolves the inner fist. It opens the hand.
In Deepermind terms, that first sentence is the transfer of
authority. The mind and ego have been acting like kings—issuing
judgments, demands, and warnings, and then treating those inner
commands as if they were truth.
“I give up” is the soul interrupting that regime. It is the
recognition that the speaking mind is not qualified to run the whole
inner kingdom, because it sees only fragments.
It is brilliant in narrow tasks, but unstable as a master.
When the prayer says “I give up,” the reader is invited to stop
fighting their own moment-to-moment experience.
That shift is transformative because it changes the entire inner
geometry. Consciousness rises not by effort, but by letting go of
what keeps it bound.
Then the prayer immediately names the new center of gravity: “I
love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.” This line is
not trying to flatter God. It is doing something inward: it is
returning the heart to simplicity.
The human psyche becomes complicated when it lives in the realm of
mixed motives—wanting peace but also wanting to be right, wanting
love but also wanting control, wanting freedom but also wanting to
keep its favorite resentments.
Purity and simplicity are not moral decorations; they are
energetic alignments. When the prayer calls love “pure” and “simple,”
it is giving the nervous system a single, coherent signal. That
coherence itself is healing.
And now your definition of God becomes essential. When “God” means
pure love, highest knowledge, and the greatest peace, then the prayer
is not asking the reader to adopt a doctrine.
It is training the reader to orient toward the highest
qualities they can actually recognize and feel.
Pure love is recognizable because it has no hook. It does not
bargain, threaten, shame, or manipulate.
Highest knowledge is recognizable because it is calm, spacious,
and accurate; it does not need drama to make its point.
Greatest peace is recognizable because it quiets the compulsion to
fix everything immediately, and it restores inner safety even when
the outer world is imperfect.
In that sense, God is not being placed “outside” the person
as a distant ruler. God is being invoked as the highest field of
being that the person can align with and enter.
That is why the next line is so powerful: “You give me pure love I
can feel, spiritual love that lifts me.” This converts spirituality
from abstraction into experience.
Many people can talk about love; fewer can feel it without
conditions. When the prayer emphasizes felt love, it is making a
subtle but crucial move: it stops treating spirituality as an idea
and starts treating it as a direct inner event.
When love is felt as uplift, the person’s baseline state begins to
change. Their identity slowly migrates from “the one who must manage
and endure” to “the one who can receive and rest.”
That shift is not sentimentality. It is a reorganization of
consciousness.
The prayer then establishes what I would call the foundational
axis: “Beneath all things, everything rests on Your love for me, and
my love for You.” This is not a claim about the universe that needs
proof. It is a claim about inner orientation.
It says: underneath the mind’s noise, underneath the ego’s
fears, underneath the emotional storms, there is a stable ground.
When people suffer, it is often not because their life is
objectively unbearable, but because their inner ground has been
replaced by spinning thoughts and survival strategies.
The prayer rebuilds ground. It gives the heart a place to stand.
And then it is written one of the most Deepermind-compatible lines in
the entire prayer: “You are my standard, my reference.” In
psychology, reference frames determine what we call normal.
In inner life, whatever is our standard becomes our ruler.
If the standard is social approval, the ego becomes frantic.
If the standard is constant comfort, the mind becomes fearful.
If the standard is winning, the heart becomes hard. But if
the standard is pure love, highest knowledge, and greatest peace, the
person is steadily lifted, because their internal compass is set
above the reactive layers.
This is how the prayer interfaces with the highest realms of the
soul: it gives the soul a true north.
Notice what happens next. The prayer does not pretend life will
remain serene. It anticipates distraction: “Help me remember this
when life distracts me.”
This is psychologically precise. The mind’s main power is not that
it is always right; it is that it is always present. It interrupts.
It seduces attention. It makes its commentary feel urgent.
The prayer’s request is not “remove distraction.” It is “help me
remember.”
In Deepermind terms, memory here means remembering the seat
of awareness, remembering the observer, remembering the highest
reference. This is a practice of returning, not a demand for
permanent bliss.
“If I wander, let me hear Your voice and return.” Here “voice”
should not be understood as auditory phenomena.
As a definition, God’s voice is the felt signal of truth:
love without hook, knowledge without agitation, peace without
collapse. The voice is clarity. The voice is conscience without
shame.
The voice is the quiet intelligence that knows what matters. To
“hear” it is to become sensitive to the subtle, calm guidance that is
normally drowned out by the loud mind.
Transformation happens because the reader begins to distinguish
two inner voices: the frantic narrator and the gentle truth.
Once a person recognizes the difference, the inner world changes
permanently. They may still have fear, but fear no longer has
unquestioned authority.
Here we introduce one of the strongest spiritual-psychological
technologies in the prayer: “Lift me to the highest consciousness. In
low times, let me see my life from across the river.”
This metaphor is not poetic decoration; it is a training
instruction. The “across the river” stance is the soul’s viewpoint.
It is the place where the person can watch their mind and emotions
without being swallowed by them.
When someone is “in” melodrama, their suffering feels like the
whole universe. When they move “across the river,” their suffering
becomes an experience happening in consciousness, not consciousness
itself. That is liberation.
The prayer teaches that their identity is not the
content of the moment; their identity is the awareness that can hold
the moment.
The prayer then does something rare: it honors the complexity of
the world while refusing to be haunted by it. The pray says that the
world has been haunted by ancient fears, but in God—pure and present
in the heart—you find clarity.
This is Deepermind is saying. It doesn’t insult the human
tendency to fear; it recognizes it as a historical and psychological
inheritance. But it does not surrender to it. It chooses a higher
center.
“Without You, I do not know which way to turn, what is good, what
is false.” Read carefully, this is not dependency; it is honesty
about the limits of the lower mind.
The reactive mind can justify anything. It can sanctify
resentment, rationalize avoidance, and confuse pleasure with peace.
When the prayer says “without You I do not know,” there is a
confession of the
fallibility of the internal narrator.
The transformation is that the reader is permitted to admit: my
mind is not a reliable spiritual instrument when it is agitated. That
humility is not weakness. It is the beginning of wisdom.
The Now and Forever Prayer builds an internal structure through repeated
vows: “Now and forever, I am guided. I know who I am. I live with
purpose. I feel Your presence.”
The repetition is not merely stylistic. Repetition is how the
nervous system learns. In anxious states, the mind repeats threats.
In healed states, consciousness repeats truth.
By repeating “now and forever, the prayer is not trying to force
certainty; it is imprinting orientation. The intension of the prayer
here is to create a
stable inner refrain that can outlast mood swings.
This is how the prayer becomes a tool rather than a poem. It
becomes a new baseline.
Here spirituality is linked to action and dignity. Negativity is confronted and the
impact of news we hear, is designed to attract attention and create
fear. We should stay informed but not driven into low consciousness,
as our task is to raise life into higher consciousness.
This is important because it prevents spiritual life from becoming
a private comfort ritual. Uplift is real only if it
changes how one meets the world.
When negativity arises, the prayer does not ask for a perfect
world; it asks for right response. It is not asking for you to solve
every
problem, all it is asking for is for you to do what you can.
This is psychologically healing because helplessness is one of the
fastest paths to despair. The prayer restores agency without ego
inflation. It says: I am not omnipotent, but I am not useless.
That stance alone can transform a person’s spirit.
One of the most transformative sections is where it says changing addictions into preferences, and demands into preferences.
This is a direct bridge between the highest realm and everyday life.
In Deepermind language, “demand” is the ego tightening into
control. “Preference” is the soul allowing reality while still
choosing wisely. When the reader practices this shift, they begin to
feel what freedom actually is.
Having freedom means healthy choices, not indulging in excess.
When we don't receive what we want it often means we have graduated
to a higher level. We love children, and some adults are still
children. Some organizations have not grown up.
Freedom is not static, but contans
flexibility, inner dignity, and inner peace.
The prayer gives the reader a daily method to move from
compulsion into clarity.
Then comes the ethical core: “Each day I will be impeccable with
my words.” Words are not decorations; they are levers. Words shape
thought, thought shapes emotion, emotion shapes behavior.
Being impeccable is not about being polite; it is about being
truthful and healing. When the reader commits to new words that heal,
they are committing to a different inner atmosphere.
This is how the prayer interfaces with the “highest knowledge”
aspect of God: the person stops feeding themselves distortions. They
begin to live in language that matches reality and compassion.
The prayer then explicitly names the architecture of the inner
world: “My mind is divided into many departments, but above all I
have a true source that weighs the chatter of the mind against the
wisdom of God.”
This is almost the definition of Deepermind: a mind that can do
tasks, an ego that can defend, emotions that can surge, senses that
can report, and above them the true source that can observe and
choose.
The prayer helps the reader feel that this “true source” is not an
idea. It is the part of them that can pause. It is the part that can
watch an impulse without obeying it. It is the part that can feel
love without needing a reason.
That part is the interface to the highest realms. When you
strengthen it, the entire inner life becomes more sane.
The meditation lines bring this into direct practice: “Through
meditation, I can turn the mind off.” The transformative message here
is that the mind is not the master. The mind is a tool.
When the reader learns even a small taste of silence, they begin
to understand that peace is not created by solving every thought.
Peace is revealed when thought relaxes.
That revelation is one of the most profound spiritual events a
person can have, because it proves—experientially—that they are not
their mental chatter.
Then the prayer includes something that many prayers avoid:
self-affirmation. You say you are educated, you can fix things, you
can see through illusions.
This can be dangerous when it inflates ego, but the prayer avoids
that trap because it is framed within surrender and devotion.
These affirmations become instruments of service and clarity, not
superiority. In Deepermind terms, this is the ego transformed into a
healthy functional self rather than a fragile image-manager.
The person is allowed to respect their capacities without using
them as a mask.
The prayer then moves into a gentle handling of time: learning
from the past, preparing for the future, not clinging, not fearing.
This is spiritual maturity. It is also nervous-system regulation.
Clinging and fear are two primary fuels of mental suffering. When
the reader practices the stance, they begin to live more in presence
without losing practicality.
That balance is rare. It is also exactly what “greatest peace”
looks like in real life: calm engagement, not dissociation.
Finally, the prayer brings you down into the body with breathtaking
precision. Here it describes joy flowing through the whole body, then five
slow breaths, then relaxation into perfect joy.
This is where the prayer becomes a direct portal. The body is the
bridge between thought and spirit.
When joy is felt somatically, the reader receives a kind of proof
that peace is not only an idea. It is a state. It is accessible.
The breath prayer is especially powerful because it
gives the mind something simple to do, while the deeper self
re-enters the field of presence. Inhale surrender. Exhale love.
Inhale uplift. Exhale guidance.
This is not just prayer; it is entrainment. It trains the whole
system to return to coherence.
And then the final technique seals the transformation: thoughts
as blue mist. This line alone can change a person’s relationship to
their mind.
Thoughts are not enemies; they are weather. They rise, swirl,
weaken, and pass.
When the reader sees this, the fear of thought dissolves. The
compulsion to argue with thought dissolves. The need to obey thought
dissolves. They return to focus—to sleep, to work, to worship. This
is the ultimate uplift: life is still life, but the inner world is no
longer a battlefield.
So what does it mean that the prayer “flows into the highest
realms of the soul”?
It means the prayer steadily moves the reader upward through the
inner layers by changing allegiance.
First it releases control. Then it establishes pure love as the
reference. Then it trains remembrance. Then it teaches the observer
stance. Then it restores agency and purpose. Then it reforms language
and habit.
Then it quiets the mind. Then it anchors joy in the body. Then it
frees the reader from identification with thought. At every step, the
prayer is not begging for a miracle; it is forming a new inner order.
And that is why it can transform the reader. It does not merely
ask God to change life. It changes the reader’s position inside life.
It moves them from being a person trapped in mind and
circumstance to being a soul aligned with love, knowledge, and peace.
It teaches them how to return when they wander, how to act when
they can, how to rest when they cannot, and how to feel guided
without falling into superstition.
This prayer is a ladder, but not a ladder out of the world. It is
a ladder into the highest way of being in the world.
It lifts the reader into a state where love becomes the ground,
clarity becomes the compass, peace becomes the atmosphere, and the
soul becomes the seat of identity. When a reader lives from that
seat, they are not merely comforted; they are changed.
That is transformation.
The Breath Prayer allows you rest in a state of presence or stillness,
concentrating on the breath. Then it gently ends with guided now and
forever which welcomes the assurance of continued spirituality before
the
return to activity. May it carrying some of that balance with you.
When life is aligned, it feels light without being shallow, strong
without being rigid, and meaningful without strain. There is
coherence between thought, emotion, body, understanding, and
relationship.
There is also a quiet sense of being in tune with something larger
than oneself, with life, with truth, with other people, and
with God.
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By George Norwood, September 1, 2025